Senior Organizer

Bay Resistance Institute

Senior Organizer

About the Organization

Bay Resistance Network is a regional alliance of community organizations, labor unions, faith groups, and activist groups. The network originally formed in fall 2016 to resist Trump-era attacks on our communities, reconvened in fall 2023 to mobilize solidarity against the genocide in Gaza, and fully relaunched in 2024 to confront the renewed threats of a second Trump administration.

Together with our partners, we have organized dozens of actions, mass meetings, trainings, coordinating convenings, and monthly art builds. Our network includes more than 75 organizations serving impacted communities, with 20–40 organizations regularly convening to develop shared strategy and action priorities. Bay Resistance also maintains 150 distributed action pods and a base of 40,000 activists ready to plug into volunteer activities and campaigns.

Position Overview

Bay Resistance seeks an experienced Senior Organizer to help lead our mass organizing and network development. The Senior Organizer leads our team to recruit, train, and develop volunteers; build and support action pods; and coordinate volunteer activity across the Bay Resistance network.

The Senior Organizer also builds strong relationships with network organizations to understand their work, assess how their members are impacted by current attacks, and connect them to shared campaigns and defense strategies.

Depending on skills and experience, this position may focus more heavily on network organizing, volunteer and pod organizing, or both. Additional responsibilities may include convening network organizations to develop shared strategy, leading distributed organizing and super-volunteer programs, building digital organizing infrastructure, coordinating immigrant rights work (including ICE Watch), and leading campaigns.

This position reports to the Organizing Director and may supervise organizers.

Bay Resistance Institute is a 501(c)(3) organization. This position is shared with our sister organization, Bay Resistance, a separate 501(c)(4).

Key Responsibilities

The following responsibilities are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel classified in this manner. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Dependent on the skills and experience of the person, this position could include:

1. Network and Coalition Organizing

• Develop and strengthen the Bay Resistance Network of Organizations.
• Convene network organizations to develop shared assessments, strategy, and action plans.
• Represent Bay Resistance at coalition meetings, protests, and actions.
• Coordinate Bay Resistance contingents, outreach, and mobilization at actions.
• Support network organizations in planning and executing campaigns (e.g., ICE Out of Dublin, Hands Off Medicaid, Know Your Rights, Tesla Takedown).
• Support network organizations to integrate Bay Resistance volunteers and pods into their campaigns,
• Engage network organizations to plan and staff actions, trainings, canvassing, and other activities

Distributed Organizing and Volunteer Leadership

• Lead a distributed organizing program that builds and activates activists and action pods across the Bay Area. Evolve the action pod structure to increase participation, leadership, and impact.
• Use data, segmentation, and organizing best practices to drive sustained volunteer participation.
• Build distributed organizing programs using email, SMS, Slack, relational tools, and digital training infrastructure.
• Supervise and develop organizers and volunteer leaders.
• Design political education, leadership development, and organizational grounding programs, including mass meetings and trainings.
• Conduct one-on-one organizing conversations to build relationships, gather feedback, resolve issues, and deepen engagement.
• Develop and manage a super-volunteer program to staff essential organizational functions, including direct action, mass protests, voter engagement, grassroots organizing, lobbying, art, and administrative support.
• Maintain an up-to-date calendar and list of actions and volunteer opportunities.

1. Digital Organizing

• Design and execute digital recruitment, onboarding, and leadership development pipelines.
• Integrate digital strategy with field organizing for coordinated mobilization and rapid response.
• Build and maintain digital infrastructure for supporter engagement and volunteer leadership development.
• Use analytics, experimentation, and segmentation to improve organizing outcomes.
• Coordinate across teams to ensure digital tools support base-building and campaign goals.
• Partner with the Communications Director to align digital, narrative, and communications strategies.
• Support organizational capacity-building around digital organizing best practices.

1. Immigrant Rights Coordination

• Coordinate Bay Resistance’s immigrant rights work,
• Develop local strategies to integrate Bay Resistance activists with ICE Watch systems and rapid-response infrastructure.
• Deepen relationships and engagements of immigrant rights organizations

1. Campaign Leadership

• Facilitate campaign design and strategy with the coalition
• Lead or co-lead issue-based and rapid-response campaigns
• Connect national and state campaigns to Bay Area campaigns

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Deep commitment to defeating fascism and urgency around building a mass base to do so.
• Minimum of four years of community or union organizing experience.
• Experience organizing at scale using distributed organizing models.
• Strong organizing skills and ability to lead and develop an organizing team.
• Experience using data tools to track volunteers and manage organizing lists.
• Strong strategic planning and project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to remain calm and professional in high-pressure or public-facing situations.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse group of staff, volunteers, and coalition partners.
• Ability to manage a flexible schedule, including regular evening and weekend work.
• Proficiency with basic computer applications (word processing, spreadsheets).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and leading coalitions.
• Immigrant rights organizing experience and familiarity with Bay Area organizations.
• Direct action and protest organizing experience.
• Electoral organizing experience (phone banking, canvassing).
• Experience integrating online and offline organizing.
• Experience developing popular political education.

Work Environment / Physical Demands

This position will work out of the Bay Rising office in Oakland. Must be able to work on a computer including sitting at a desk for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation; manual dexterity to operate a keyboard; able to see or read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; able to speak clearly and in audible tones on the phone and in-person and be understood by others; able to hear and understand speech, including on the phone; able to understand and follow oral and written instructions; able to occasionally lift objects weighing up to 10 pounds, travel to and participate in protests, mass meetings, door knocking and phone banking.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Employment Terms

This is a full time exempt position. Salary range for the Senior Organizer is $90,000- $100,000 depending on experience. We offer a competitive health benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, and a generous paid time off schedule.

How to Apply

Submit resume, cover letter, and 3 references through this job portal. https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=c858a322-00a0-4526-9713-59699ec1e4bf&ccId=9200724642802_2&jobId=576354&source=CC2&lang=en_US Applications will be reviewed as received.

Bay Resistance is a project of Bay Rising, which contracts with Resilient Strategies LLC for backend and operational support including hiring and employment. Resilient Strategies is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Folks who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, people of color, disabled, parents, are/have been system-impacted, are immigrants, and anyone who has experienced systemic oppression and/or gender-based violence are encouraged to apply. Pursuant of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment.